tempest

1 a violent commotion or disturbance; "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot" [syn: storm]

2 (literary) a violent wind; "a tempest swept over the island"

English

Etymology

From tempeste (French: tempête), from tempestas, storm, from tempus, time, weather

Noun

1. A storm, especially one with severe winds.
   • 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, ch. 16,

     As every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic.

2. Any violent tumult or commotion.
   • 1914, Ambrose Bierce, "One Officer, One Man,"

     They awaited the word "forward"—awaited, too, with beating hearts and set teeth the gusts of lead and iron that were to smite them at their first movement in obedience to that word. The word was not given; the tempest did not break out.

Related terms

• tempest in a teapot
• tempestuous

Translations

Verb

1. In the context of "intransitive|rare": To storm.
2. In the context of "transitive|chiefly|poetic": To disturb, as by a tempest.
   • 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Drowned Lover," in Poems from St. Irvyne,

     Oh! dark lowered the clouds on that horrible eve,

     And the moon dimly gleamed through the tempested air.

References

• Webster 1828}}

A tempest is a violent storm.

Tempest or The Tempest may also refer to:

In fiction

• The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare
  • The Tempest (Dryden), an adaptation of Shakespeare's play by John Dryden and William D'Avenant
  • The Tempest (Tchaikovsky), a fantasy overture based on Shakespeare's play, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • The Tempest (Sullivan), a set of incidental music to the Shakespeare play written in 1861 and revised and expanded in 1862
  • Tempest (film), a 1928 John Barrymore film
  • The Tempest (film), a 1979 movie by Derek Jarman, based on Shakespeare's play
  • Tempest (1982 film), a Paul Mazursky film
  • The Tempest (opera) a 2004 opera
• Tempest (Smallvile), an episode of television series Smallville
• Tempest (novel), a Star Wars novel
• The Tempest, a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel
• Tempest (comics), one of three characters from DC Comics
• Angel Salvadore, a Marvel comics character who goes by the name of "Tempest"
• The Tempest, a DHARMA Initiative station on the television show Lost

In art

• The Tempest (painting), painting by Giorgione

In military history

• Hawker Tempest, a World War II-era British Royal Air Force fighter
• Operation Tempest, a World War II operation of the Polish Home Army
• Centurion tank variant called "Tempest", found in Singapore

In games

• Tempest (Magic: The Gathering), an expansion to the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game
• Tempest (arcade game), a 1980 arcade game

In music

• Joey Tempest, singer in the Swedish hard rock band Europe
• Tempest (band), a folk rock group from San Francisco
• Tempest (UK band), a progressive rock group from the UK
• Tempest (rock band), a classic rock group from the UK
• Tempest (Christian rock band), late 1980s Christian Hair Metal band
• The Tempest (album), CD released by The Insane Clown Posse in 2007
• Piano Sonata No. 17 (Beethoven), nicknamed the "Tempest Sonata"
• "Tempest", a song on the 2007 Delta-S album Voyage to Isis
• "The Tempest", a track on the album Music of the Spheres (Mike Oldenfield album)

Other

• TEMPEST, a standard of shielding for wires and computers used by the US and other governments
• Tempest (keelboat), a One-Design keelboat
• Pontiac Tempest, an automobile
• Janne Suni, a Finnish demoscener who goes by the handle of "Tempest"
• Tempest (ship)

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